fiberguy
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2 edits | reply to Austinloop
Re: It was her rotten utility pole - she owned it
The ONLY thing that is required of pole testing is by using an FED for foreign current. Testing the quality or strength of a pole isn't done more than eying them. I mean, I can look at a pole and see that it's small, gaffed to hell, and chips away when I sneeze at it.
But, having worked for both Cable, and telephone. (PacBell, a major player) and having been in a few systems, and gone through over 15 years of training programs, pole testing has been the extend of how to climb it safely, and how to check for foreign voltage. And it's not "some" don't test.. it's MOST. (again, that's FV, ...that is outside of power guys.)
I guess we have to agree to disagree then. I'll leave it there becuase anything else will sound like an insult no matter how I try to say it. |
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Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX
1 edit | Well, whatever, however pole prods and sounding poles were trained and expected in SWB. I really have no idea what PacBell did, nor do I really care.
I was an outside foreman for around 24 years. |
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fiberguy
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| said by Austinloop  :I was an outside foreman for around 24 years. Well, that explains much of your post. I guess this is turning into a pissing contest. I think when you pass a certain point with time in. 15 years or 24 years doesn't really matter. But, if this does help, I was generally mostly in supervisory position. (We stopped calling them foreman positions a long time ago and called them leads and supervisors in all the shops I ever worked in)
So, in the systems I worked in, being PacBell, Comcast, Scripts Howard, AT&T, and Time Warner, none of them trained on pole testing.. I guess it's based on the system you work.
Either way.. the pole broke and a news story was posted here on a forum.. slow news day I guess. |
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